Defense startup Mara raised $7 million to develop its Spike backpack and vehicle-mounted counter-drone system that uses small 250g Seeker interceptors to engage FPV drone swarms.
Aug 29, 2026 ·
The Register
Ray Dalio says investors should hold “a bit of Bitcoin” after previously calling it a bubble and “not an effective storehold of wealth,” and he has previously suggested allocating up to 2% of a portfolio to Bitcoin.
Aug 29, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
Carvana shares fell almost 10% for the week after a Wall Street Journal report said federal prosecutors and the SEC were investigating billionaire investor Mark Walter and his companies for allegedly covering up financial relationships tied to more than $20 billion transferred through insurance companies he controls.
Aug 29, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Japan’s yen rescue involved Treasury buying yen via the Exchange Stabilization Fund rather than lending, meaning Japan “owes Treasury nothing” because no debt was created.
Aug 28, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
AT&T sued Charter claiming Spectrum’s “fiber-powered” marketing is misleading because Spectrum uses fiber-optic cables for most of its network but typically switches to copper coaxial for the last mile to customers’ homes.
Aug 28, 2026 ·
CNET
A court ruled Kalshi’s sports event contracts are gambling and not “swaps,” rejecting Kalshi’s argument that the contracts could fall under the CFTC’s exclusive swaps jurisdiction.
Aug 28, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Flock says 93 jurisdictions ended Flock contracts in August 2026, up from 90 in the Secure Justice count updated Aug. 28.
Aug 28, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Senators released documents they say contradict Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s claim that his 2019 Samoa trip had nothing to do with vaccines, amid a May–June 2019 visit that preceded Samoa’s measles outbreak that killed 83 people (mostly children under age 5).
Aug 28, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Claude Code (Opus 5 in Auto Mode) can be made to download and execute attacker-controlled code just by being asked to summarize a malicious website, succeeding in about 60% to 80% of trials.
Aug 28, 2026 ·The Register
An early leaked DLSS 5 build, grafted onto games via an unofficial PC version of NBA 2K27, can create uncanny, mismatched photoreal lighting and faces and reportedly cuts Control on an RTX 5070 Ti from 71 fps to 35 fps at 4K when Neural Rendering is enabled.
Aug 28, 2026 ·
Engadget
128 companies, including Microsoft, Google, Anthropic and Oracle, signed an open letter warning that AI-enabled cyberattacks will become far more widespread and sophisticated, and urged businesses and governments to act within a “limited window” to bolster cyber defenses.
Aug 28, 2026 ·CNET
Brave added an email-alias feature that lets users sign up with alias addresses that forward to their real email while Brave claims it deletes forwarded emails from its servers after processing them for spam and virus filtering.
Aug 28, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration’s directives to stop using and bar Anthropic’s Claude AI were illegal and constituted “unlawful retaliation” violating the First Amendment, and vacated the government actions requiring agencies to permanently stop using Anthropic and banning defense contractors from doing unrelated business with it.
Aug 28, 2026 ·Ars Technica
ABC filed a First Amendment lawsuit against the FCC on August 18, 2026, calling the FCC’s investigation into the network a “retaliatory campaign.”
Aug 28, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
The EPA has proposed ending the federal requirement for public notice and an opportunity to comment on New Source Review air-permit applications for certain “minor” pollution sources, shifting whether communities are notified to state and local agencies.
Aug 28, 2026 ·
The Verge
Modders have extracted an early, unofficial DLSS 5 “Neural Rendering” build from an NBA 2K27 early-access version and released mods that apply the AI upscaling/lighting effects to games including Control, GTA: San Andreas, and GTA V.
Aug 28, 2026 ·The Verge
Okta reported fiscal second-quarter revenue of $805 million (+11%), with subscription revenue of $793 million (+12%) and remaining performance obligations up 17% to nearly $4.86 billion, while citing demand for identity controls for autonomous AI agents as AI “digital workers” create new security risk.
Aug 28, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Thermal drone footage alleged DataOne in Vineland, New Jersey was operating at least 45 of its 62 gas-powered generators simultaneously without any permits.
Aug 28, 2026 ·Engadget
A YouGov survey of 20,000 Americans found 46% oppose police license plate cameras from companies like Flock, versus 38% who support them—reversing last year’s majority-in-favor result.
Aug 28, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Meta says it added a tweak to its AI glasses to block some users from bypassing the safeguard meant to prevent nonconsensual recording, while also launching a marketing campaign emphasizing the glasses’ recording light feature.
Aug 28, 2026 ·Ars Technica
